Best Cake Design Ideas for a Ruby Wedding

Like any festive event, the forty-year wedding anniversary often ends with tea drinking. Usually a cake decorated with decorative elements of red color is prepared for 40 years from the date of the wedding.

A ruby ​​wedding cake must necessarily have decorations in red shades (from scarlet to dark cherry), since these colors are traditional for the fortieth anniversary of living together. Of course, it is not necessary to decorate the festive dessert exclusively in red. Interesting options can be obtained by combining the base color with white, gold, beige, blue, black or green.

It is customary to decorate a classic cake for a ruby ​​wedding with flowers. For example, red roses can be placed on top of the white cream. For greater pomp, they can be cascaded. Organically look at the cake initials anniversary. Most often, decorations are made of mastic, however, if this product does not like the heroes of the occasion or some of the guests, you can make jewelry without this ingredient, replacing it with a regular cream.

Any holiday is always associated with gifts. You can also make a birthday cake in the form of a gift box. It is enough to decorate it with decorative edible flowers, bows and “packaging”. You can make a greeting inscription in English or Russian.

Elegant couples will love the dessert with a lace of dark chocolate over a snow-white cream base. If you add red parts to such a cake, then it will become the main event of the evening. A similar expression of higher aesthetics in the decoration is the red and black color range. However, the dark color should be used very carefully so as not to turn the festive dessert into a gloomy one.

When giving a cake to the closest (parents), make sure that not only red, but also gold details are present in its decor.

Baking a cake for an anniversary can be ordered at any pastry shop, but the hero of the occasion will appreciate if you bake a treat for them yourself.

The least troublesome dessert available for personal preparation is called Red Velvet.

You will need the following ingredients:

• flour - 400 g;
• sugar sand - 300 g;
• baking powder - 10 g;
• chicken egg - 3 pieces;
• vanilla (to taste);
• salt - 3 g;
• kefir - 300 ml;
• red dye - 15 g;
• vegetable oil - 200 g

First you need to knead the dough. To do this, the dry ingredients are connected in deep packaging. In a separate cup mix the butter, kefir and dye. They need to interfere to obtain a rich red tint. Separately, it is worth whipping refined sugar and eggs to obtain a thick foam. Then you should combine them with kefir mass, add the remaining dry products. Everything is mixed up.

Three equal cakes will come out of this volume. They must be baked for about half an hour at 170 ° C. The dough is laid out in a detachable round shape (diameter 22-24 cm), covered with baking paper. Cool the cakes, then roll them with food mica and put them in the fridge (preferably all night). Cream for impregnating cakes can be prepared from condensed milk and butter or cottage cheese (1.5 packs) with the addition of vanilla, refined powder (4 tbsp) and 2/3 packs of butter.

To assemble a cake, you must follow a specific sequence of actions.Each cake should be cut off the top of the head and crushed to obtain crumbs. It will be needed for decoration. The cream is necessary not only to coat each cake, but also to lubricate the dish on which the cake will flaunt. After the general assembly with the help of a long wooden spatula, it is good to miss all sides and top of the treat. Crumb from the cake should be sprinkled from the sides and top. In conclusion, the cake is decorated with the remaining cream using a pastry syringe.

If the cake for you is something old-fashioned, then you can cook biscuit muffins.

To prepare a delicious dessert you need:

• flour - 200 g;
• granulated sugar - 200 g;
• chicken egg - 2 pieces;
• vegetable oil - half a cup;
• cocoa - 10 g;
• kefir - 200 ml;
• butter - half a pack;
• salt - 2 g;
• baking powder - 5 g;
• red dye - 10 g

For the cream will additionally need:

• soft cheese - 1.5 cups;
• crushed refined sugar - half a cup;
• butter - 2/3 packs;
• vanilla sugar - 10 g.

Dry foods need to put together. Separately, you need to whip butter and sand. Then add the eggs, continuing to beat. After that, you need to pour in vegetable oil, dye and kefir. In the end it is worth adding the dry ingredients and mix well the mass to obtain a homogeneous consistency. The resulting mixture is laid in molds for cupcakes so that they are filled to 2/3. Bake cupcakes need a quarter of an hour at a temperature of 175 degrees.

At this time it is necessary to prepare the cream. Butter should be combined with vanilla and powder, add cheese, beat with a mixer.

When the muffins are baked, they must be given time to cool. Then the cakes are decorated with the resulting cream. For the original design in the cream, you can also add a dye.

The multi-tiered cake decorated with purple mastic bows and snow-white figurines of cats looks unusual. Although there are no clearly red shades on the cake, the lilac color is considered a kind of pink-magenta palette. In addition, this color symbolizes wisdom, nostalgia, patience, peace of mind, that is, those qualities that the heroes of the day gained for a long time together. If desired, a delicate shade can be replaced with red. This will make the treat even more spectacular.

A cake made in the form of a luxurious soft bed, covered with a quilted bedspread with tassels of gold color, looks original. Upstairs is a box of mastic, trimmed with pearls, which adorn two wedding rings. The initials of the jubilees are engraved on the lid.

You will learn more about how to make and decorate a cake for a ruby ​​wedding in the following video.